Example sentences of "speaking be " in BNC.
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| 1 | although there are some widespread non-reciprocal speaking and listening situations ( such as radio , television , public address systems and lectures ) , the processes of listening and speaking are primarily reciprocal and integrated . |
| 2 | It is easy to pretend that the values and standard of behaviour about which I am speaking are genteel or middle class . |
| 3 | ACT is discriminatory , and it discriminates against the kind of companies that generally speaking are good for Britain |
| 4 | The four skills of reading , writing , listening and speaking are well-practised in a wide variety of tasks , including scanning , summarizing , categorizing , building definitions , and comprehension . |
| 5 | As in the case of the physical events considered in the last chapter in connection with causation and other nomic connection , mental events strictly speaking are to be regarded as individual properties or sets of such properties . |
| 6 | These are those who have been unemployed longest , and generally speaking are very young claimants with few skills , or older workers who , by the length of this unemployment , have been de-skilled . |
| 7 | Being a discursive subject and speaking are a matter of having access to a mirror , and it is not insignificant that a male subject is initially in control of the retrovizor . |
| 8 | Surely , they said , all these men speaking are Galileans . |
| 9 | For most of our students , the main objective is to be able to communicate confidently in the language of their choice , so practice in listening and speaking are our first priorities . |
| 10 | Assignment is a relation in the technical sense , but as it is a unary relation , many readers may feel more at ease if we speak of it as a property ( the two ways of speaking are of course completely inter-convertible ) . |
| 11 | Thus , in addition to notes and coins , M2 includes ‘ retail deposits ’ , which broadly speaking are all bank deposits of less than £100,000 , and building societies deposits , both withdrawable within one month . |
| 12 | But then of course the kind of stories I give and the ones that most people like generally speaking are the accidents I have . |
| 13 | I 've served on that one , and the whole business of the organisation has generally speaking been run by the executive and not by a full council . |
| 14 | ( Part of the reason for this undoubtedly lay in the fact that the foraging hominids of whom we are speaking were in part already pre-adapted to upright posture by an evolutionary past different to that of today 's gelada baboon and because they probably already possessed cerebral development going beyond that of a mere monkey thanks to their common ancestry with today 's great apes . ) |
| 15 | we were n't speaking were we Satan ? |
| 16 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 17 | Another version puts things differently , arguing that men 's way of speaking is not intrinsically more credible/authoritative , what happens is simply that men can use their socially dominant position to claim linguistic privileges . |
| 18 | The first title , Everyday Listening and Speaking is in preparation . |
| 19 | What attracted me to this way of speaking is that it would seem to allow for a celebration of the diversity of human beings , this held together with an emphasis on the commonness of their humanity . |
| 20 | Such concurrent listening and speaking is known as " shadowing " , and has a strong reputation for being attention-demanding . |
| 21 | A second and commodious objection to the view of nomic connection which has been set out was anticipated earlier ( 1.3 ) , and may be shored up a bit by the fact lately mentioned , that science broadly speaking is not much engaged in arriving at complete descriptions of causal circumstances-causal circumstances as we have conceived them . |
| 22 | The only reason that I am speaking is that I do not believe that the guillotine motion has anything to do with speeding up the Education ( Schools ) Bill because time was being wasted . |
| 23 | By s.4 land generally speaking is not property which can be stolen . |
| 24 | The implication ( 33 ) 5 , that the day of speaking is other than Wednesday or Thursday , is also due to deixis ( explained in Chapter z ) , for the word Thursday in utterance ( iii ) is used in a deictic way that invokes pragmatic parameters ( there are other usages that do not , e.g. Pay day is Thursday ) . |
| 25 | Arousal curve well understanding the need for arousal for me helped because I now understand that having nerves while you 're speaking is not unnatural it is n't something that you 're able to get rid of but you need to be able to work with it and practice to improve performance . |
| 26 | The one to whom I had been speaking was shivering audibly . |
| 27 | Although , Antony 's technique in speaking was much greater and he won his high position through his cunning ‘ tactics ’ in one speech . |